Knock out game

[diverdog]

Have you guys heard about the knock out game?

http://www.eurweb.com/2013/11/alert-black-youth-involved-in-senseless-terrifying-knockout-game-watch/?utm_source=hexagram.com&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=hexagram.com

I have got to wonder if a bunch of white youth were randomly punching out innocent black bystanders what the press would say. How is this not racially motivated and why isn't it a hate crime?

[Soonerus]

One of the reasons I have a CC license now...

[KantoSooner]

One of the reasons I have a CC license now...

Yeah, I noted that most of this seems to happen in, ahem, 'Northern' states. Not in places like Dallas, OKC, Atlanta, etc.

[Soonerjeepman]

was it Detroit?...maybe...dude shot the kid. He did have CC. No charges were ever brought. Kid will live but one bullet came within an inch of his spine.

[Soonerjeepman]

Have you guys heard about the knock out game?

http://www.eurweb.com/2013/11/alert-black-youth-involved-in-senseless-terrifying-knockout-game-watch/?utm_source=hexagram.com&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=hexagram.com

I have got to wonder if a bunch of white youth were randomly punching out innocent black bystanders what the press would say. How is this not racially motivated and why isn't it a hate crime?

yeah about a month or so ago...Ya need to watch FOX news my friend! LOL.

ummm...DD, going to assume that is a rhetorical question...(bold part)

[Soonerjeepman]

'He shoved something into my side'

Call it the mistake of bringing a taser to a gunfight. As reported by Breitbart News:

A teen playing the "Knockout Game" in Lansing, Michigan unwittingly targeted a concealed carry permit holder and was shot twice. He survived and is now in jail.

WILX in Lansing reports that the teenager, Marvell Weaver, who is black, tried to knock out a father who was waiting at a bus stop on Feb. 26 for his daughter to arrive.

"I saw the van circle twice, and the second time three kids came out. I didn't suspect anything. I hadn't any enemies, or any reason to believe they would be looking to do anything to me," the man - whose identity was protected - told the TV station.

Instead of simply trying to punch the dad, Weaver tried a different variation of the game by trying to use a taser.

"He shoved something into my side. I wasn't sure what it was. It had some force to it. I wasn't sure if it was a knife or a gun," the victim said.

But the taser malfunctioned, leaving Weaver little more than a sitting duck (sitting punk?).

When the taser didn't work, the father reached inside his clothing and pulled out a .40 caliber handgun, shooting the teen twice.

Weaver has since admitted previously knocking out six or seven people on days before being shot. He admitted that being shot was "a lesson learned." He's now serving one year in jail for his attack.

"It was just a lesson learned. I wish I hadn't played the game at all," Weaver told the station.

On the day he was shot, Weaver said he wasn't with his usual crowd. He said the "game" usually gets underway when someone is dared to "play" it.

"They weren't my normal group of friends. Someone just throws it out there and people go along with it. One thing leads to another and it just goes all downhill," he said.

'It's just senseless'

He went on to say that players usually liked to target crowds, because it made it easier to get away by losing yourself in a gaggle of people.

He also said victims are completely chosen at random. They could be man or woman, young or old - it made no difference.

Yet, he never thought that playing would nearly cost him is life and a year in jail.

"There's a price to pay if they wind up doing it. A good example is Marvell Weaver," Officer Robert Merritt, with Lansing P.D., told the station.

Merritt said that, if an attack was considered bad enough, the attacker could be charged with a felony.

"It's just senseless. Teenagers have a lot better things to do with their time," he said.

Some apparently don't.

"What they tried to do to me wouldn't have been a joke if they would've succeeded. My child would've been left with the aftermath of seeing her father in any type of way I would've been left," said the victim.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/043091_knockout_game_concealed_handgun_teenagers.h tml##ixzz2n5ybKbE8


Sure the kid will be on all the talk shows after he gets out, become a "hero" for turning his life around...

[KantoSooner]

was it Detroit?...maybe...dude shot the kid. He did have CC. No charges were ever brought. Kid will live but one bullet came within an inch of his spine.

Any way we can contribute to a fund for ammo and range time for him? Seems like he needs to work on his shot placement.

[Skysooner]

This same kind of thing happened in Denver about 3 years ago.

[olevetonahill]

Send them Boys on down here to Wister to "Play" their silly Game. We got a game we can teach them LOL

[Jacie]

Yeah, I noted that most of this seems to happen in, ahem, 'Northern' states. Not in places like Dallas, OKC, Atlanta, etc.

Your bias is showing. Seems there was an incident in of all places, Duncan, OK recently, and Kanto I know Duncan, my mom was from Duncan, heck, as a child I lived in Duncan, on Beech Street, went to kindergarten there and for goodness sake, a crime so heinous as to be unimaginable happened . . . in Duncan.

So don't vilify a part of the country you don't live in just because you saw something on the news.

[KantoSooner]

I was born in Duncan and my grandparents lived there until I was in my 30's. My mother grew up there. I also went to undergrad in Massachusetts, lived and worked for a coupla years in NYC and another couple in Minnesota as well as working for NYC and Minneapolis-based companies for the majority of my career. That part of the country is not alien to me.

My point was simple: a lot more people in the South and West tend to carry guns, thus increasing the odds that, if you run up on someone and try to pull a Rambo, you'll be shot for your troubles. I am not making a real value judgement in that statement; personally I am uncomfortable with the idea of so many armed people around me. Largely because I consider my fellow WalMart shoppers to represent the genetic wading pool of life and I wouldn't give you a plug nickel for their judgement regarding use of lethal force. That said, I also find hilarious the concept that these 'players' could end up crippled or dead. Merry Christmas.